The toiler. (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, February 20, 1920, Image 3

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-tThiThe ToilerONE TEAR i BUNDLE RATES i SIX MONTHS$1.00 $1.00 Per Hundred I SOcAddress all mail and make all checks payable toTHE TOILER3207 Clark Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.Entered as Second Class Matter, under the name of The OhioSocialist, February 21, 1917, at the Post Office at Cleveland, 0.,Under Act of March 3, 1879.EDITOR .Elmer T. AllisonPublished Weekly by The Communist Labor Party of Ohio atCleveland, Ohio.Telephone: Harvard S639.CLEVELAND, a, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20th 1920.EDITORAL & PARTY NEWS PAGE.SPARKS.Comnae Christ Kie it Niles O.,!remits , $5.00 for def jknd organization work.Among many literature orders thispaat week, we note a very substantialone from the Alaska Labor Union No.11. Boys up there seem to be spendingthe winter very profitably to themselves judging by the literature orders they have sent us the past fewmonths.Putting One Overo"Bolshevism cannot be crushed by force of arms.We failed to restore Russia to sanity by force. Ibelieve we can save her by trade".Thus spoke Lloyd George in the House of Commons onFeb. 10th. In explanation, it may be said the Premier hasreceived considerable opposition from the pro-militarists onhis bid to open trade relations with Soviet Russia. To justifyhis stand he makes the claim that where military force failedthe soothing hand of trade will win. He is acting on the theorythat since Bolshevism has arisen from oppression and starvation, that it will pass away with the filling of stomaches,and a period of plenty. Also, it seems that it is not Russiaalone which the Premier has in mind. Here is his statementregarding conditions in England."Tit dangers are not all in Russia; they are hereat homel ispeak with knowledge, with apprehensionand responsibility, and I warn the house that in theface of things which may happen we must use everylegitimate weapon. We must fight anarchy with abundance." We can't quite fathom the little Welshman. It looks to ualike he was putting one over on the anti- Bolshevists. He hasbeen noted for lighting change of attitudes and this seems tobe another to his record. We doubt if he really believes thatBolshevism will die a natural death when given a chance forits life. He may be merely appea,sing the wrath of the opposition in order to put accross his trade plans.It is true that Russia has been cemente cogether asnever before by the military actions of foes from without,and by the common needs of the people. But to assume thatthe principles' for which they have suffered every variety oftorutre will be cast aside in a period of better conditions is toreald human nature wrongly. Tf Lloyd George is serious in thismatter, then he fails to sense the principle underlying allthe suffering which Russia has undergone.N. M. orders $5.00 worth of sub cardsand wirtes, "send me the book about''that Lenine person". We might addthat the book about that same personis leaving the State Offiee at therate of 25 or more copies each week.Rest assured someone is going tolearn something about him.Coming watch for j these: Fournew ten cent pamphlets will be advertised in those page very soon.They are! "The Strnettre of SovietRussia, Political and Bonomic", byWilfred Humphries; "T-siOpen Shop",by Clarence Darrow; "The Right toStrike", by Mary Merely and "TwoMinute Talks", by Elm r T. Allison.Eseh will be worthy a tide distribution and the price is rlrht.Some contributors to the Baker defense this week are: M. L. Keller, $1.09Wm. Valenta Grand Rapids, $5.00;Henry Miller Ironton, O., $1.25; Chas.Lange, Mantua, O.Comrade Geo. Williford of HamiltonO. shows how to make a sub list grov.With his renewal he sends 4 halfyoarlies. With that he requests somesiih blanks so be can go after themright. Some action!Comrade John Foelstelport, mails $5.00 worth ofthis week.of Daveu-lbscriptionsComrade Fosse Jwans, me char.ijiionsubscription hustler, ret8 another$5.00 for subs, this ,k and $2.00for literature. He writes, -"some moresubs, next pay day". Aid we knowthey will come too.Fifty Mr. Blocks go!-lmor -flreathousc of Aki.Ward toArno Bufe of Moline sends us afistful of yearlies. The magic number5 is still working we observe .A "onerous remittancerived this week froiOillin of Davenport. Tlgeneral Party work.Two new sub hustlers at Toledo areJ.' F. Chapman and L. A. Rosnert.Both have started with an investmentof $5.00 worth of cards. Most of themare now in and we suppose this haswhetted their appetites for more. Wohave ovserved the fatal effects ofsuccessful sub hustling upon manycomrades. It usually makes them see"red".Just the same ,we believe that workin this Movement puts more color ina worker's life than worrying aboutthe profits the boss makes off hislabor. Action is what counts.Comrade H. F. Fox of Atwaterbrings two accross the line this weekComrade W. E. Reyngon, remits $10.00 fcand for the Cartoon Iof which compeh us tif the Toiler cartoons!the readers of Mnskeito be worth your backflg .How aboutt brotherThirty Trial of DebsBcomrade J. CongletohWe assume that someto know are going toabout the Debs case.$5.00 ar.comrade MB sum is fors of Muskesubscriptionsteartment. Allremark ,thatlook good tothey oughtThe Boston Tea PartyThe Boston Tea Party 1773 wasone of the most successful examplesof direct action in all history. A halfhundred American Revolutionistsdumped $100,000 worth of British teainto Boston Harbor in order to preventmad King George ni. from collectingan unjust tax upon it. The destruction of the tea was not legal. Infact it was in direct violation of thelaws protecting property. Yet it isgenerally agreed today that the revolutionists were justified in thus guarding their right of self-taxation, eventho they did tresspass a bit on thetechnical process of law and order.Revolutionists who ignored the law inorder to defend their rights and preserve American liberties are nowlanded in history as immortal heroos,and acclaimed by a grateful posterityas matchless patriots. Poets and storytellers vie with each eother in singing the praises of these determinedyien who, in a great cause, took thelaw into their own hands, destroyedthe tea, and saved the Revolution.The trouble started in this way.G'ng George the Third was, like themaster class everywhere, possesed ofan overwelning "Will to Rule". Hewished to rule with an iron hand.re ordered bybf Dover O.ks who oughtirn somcthinWAR ON IGNORANCE!We have declared WAR on IGNORANCE. Will you enlist in the ranksof the EN LIGHTEN ERST We intend to establish in the State Of fie of theCommunist Labor Party of Ohio a Book and Pamphlet Department second tonone in the nation. We will handle only the beat of the Revolutionary literature of the paat and present. We will also publish new literature of oarown. We have since Jan. 1st gotten one pamphlet off the press, mother willbe ready for sale in a few days. Others are contemplated.The co-operation of all readers of The TOILER and of all Locals andliterature agents is earnestly hoped for. The demand for new and good revolutionary literature is greater than can be supplied. We want TOU to helpus supply this demand of the workers for ENLIGHTENMENT. Everyworker can sell pamphlets every week to shopmates and other worker.Every Local must carry a full line of the best there is.Every Class-conBcious Worker must help Strike Down theIgnorance, that Enslaves the Workers.HERE IS OUR LATEST LIST. READ IT EVERY WEEK FORADDITIONAL TITLES.Crimes of the Bolsheviki 10c each, 10 or more 6c each.Russian Socialist Constitution 10c each, 10 or more 6c each.Soviet Russia 10c each, 10 or more 6c each.Russia, Articles by Tchicherin, Eastman, Lenin, 15c each, 10 or more lieDebs Goes To Prison, 15c each, 10 or more 11c each.The Dream Of Debs, 10c each, 10 or more 6c each.The Trial of Debs, 10c each, 10 or more 6c each.Mr. Block and The Profiteers, 10c each, 10 or more 6c each.But the American Colonists had al-1 Manifesto of the Communist International, 10c each, 10 or more be each.ways en.ioyed local autonomy. They j lne Class struggle, ftautaky, Z5c eacn, 10 or more 18 eacn.1We note that Robert" Tiitt 0f Toledo is in the field aft4r 'IV; subssgsm. He's putting theitWi, S-'.vania on the map.Another hurry order fr literaturearrives from Comanche' , v jt's ourold comrade, T. E. S(i,.r;ra.ss whois doing this tall hustlij')IThe Soviete have been offerong peace to the allies fortwo years. They have yearned for an opportunity to developtheir plan of social economics unhampered. But in order togain these ends they had to organize an army of 3,000.000men under extremoly trying conditions. Now they have won.Is it likely that the principles for which they have sufferedand died mil now be cast aside when the opportunity forputting them in practice presents itself?oConserving American Ideals.0"A8 an instance of the perversion of the childhood of thenation for the purposes of its own future enslavement, nothing more calculated to accomplish it has come to our attention than a copy of a song whichjs being sung by thepupils of Bryant High school of Long Island City.The song is purported to have been written by a returnedhero by the natme of Geoff ryo' Hara, who recently recited it'before the school and later with the assistance of the musicdirector, set it to music, it is now numbered among theecbooPs song numbers.The first verse and chorous of this piece of drivel areas follows."GET UP AND GET OUT."Don't you think some people in our landhave tarked enough?Don't you think the time has come to calltheir little bluff?Ask them what's the matter, make them. can the chatter.Then proceed to make the party rough.Tell them they're a menace to our land.Tell them in a way they'll understand.CHORUS.Get up and get outIf you have any doubtAbout this li. S. A.If you don't like it here"Why the ocean is clear:There's a boat' sailing home every dayThere is only one flag.Not a dirtv red rag.The flag that will never fall.Lay your life down for that,If you won't, here's your hat:Just get up utxl get out, that's all.We desire to call attention to tho largo degree of tolerenoe expressed in the first line. In a country whoso funl;un nlal law is supposed to be the free Utterance of opinion, it isgoing pretty far Jo express the antithesis of this principlein a sohool song. It naturally follows that the intolorencoexpressed in tho first line should be followed by the nppedlo direct action and violence which the rest of the verse makes.If this week's cartoonyour ire just let your feelings betranslated into cash and forward totho Cartoon Department There aremm Ttw 4Mg' ma ''wins limu.The Bullitt Report continues to bethe top seller on the literature shelves,but thispa8t week has seen an invasion or the classics which we advertise. A lot of workers are diggingup the fundamentals of tho Socialistphilosophy these day3 .And that's nmighty good sign.We are in receipt of leaflets andsample of lettor which Local Fremonthas jnailed to workers in that city.Such circularization as this aids thogrowth of confidence and knowledgeof the Movement. Other Locals couldvery profitably follow this example.Comrade Pete Bartony of Shadyside?renews and remits a dollar for another worker.Hp got revenge .did comrade Wm.True of Springfield O. He states ina letter to us that he got very angrybecause in a previous issue we gavehis address as Dayton instead ofSpringfield and searching for a!means of revenge ,decided nothingwould give as much satisfaction asto send us some more subs. And hedid two of them. And the. apologywe make is get some more reveage.Uem photos, the 're w in twice asarouses I mu . u.0l ,,wonderful likeness of iLbs, but alsoon aceount of e.wellcW materials-v 1 K.useu. uroer oneofc m 2r- each.They're 12xT8had their own legislatures and raisedtheir own taxes. They denied the rightof England to tax them. "No taxation without representation" was thocry that appealed to every American.The first tax that caused much resistance was the Stamp Tax in 1765on deeds, wills and other legal documents. When some of the stamps arrived in New York the revolutionaryleaders seized them and made a public bonfire of them. King Gnorge gotno revenue from those stamps.When the British ministry, whichat this time had become conciliatory,learned the strength of the feelingin America against foreign taxation,they had the Stamp Tax repealed.But King Ceorge soon insisted thatanother tax be levied. He wouldshow his subjects in America whowas master. So a "Revenue Act" waspassed placing a tax on paints, paper,tea and other articles. The Colonistsrefused to touch any of the taxedI merchandise. They went withoutteapper and paint, and King Oeoree gotno tax.Tom Lewis ' date W' Akron waspostponed until the 29-th. He spoeat Cincinnati Sunday the' 15th.Local Guernsey Co. has a series ofmeetings scheduled for the immediatefuture.A nice order for literature was filled a few days ago for both LocalsToledo and Cincinnati.Clarence E. Hoover of Toledo sendsin 4 new subs. No hooverizing hero.From Wyatt, W. Va., comeshealthy list of five yearlies. M. A. Tetiis the guilty party.0NBWS OF THE LABOR STBUGOLEContinued from page 2.Local Sandusky has placed the namesof 50 new readers upon the Toilerlist. These workors will receive ThoToilor gratis for a while and willthen be invited to subscribe on theirown account. Other Locals take noticefollow this example.petition of a strike which occurredsix mouths ago, the characteristic oiwhich was passive resistance. It wasenly when British troops fired uponthe meethings, killing and woudinglarge numbers, that aoy disturbancesoccurred.THE BLACK SHEEP.(Cont. from page 2-nd.)off tho committee. Miss Eaglebeak isbetter fitted for such work. You nretoo romantic; your sympathies arc toonntempered with wisdom to do suhwork. Don't go to that jail agnin.Co home pray, pray pray."tContinncd next week.)But if the words and the sentiment they express are offensive to the principles which the human, race have for thousands of years been si niggling to establish, and which havebeen the beaccn lights of all progress, no loss offensive is thoattempt to render them into a song. Thd greatest musicalgenius who over In'ed could nt make a song fit lo pass theHps of chaldron out of such trash. And as f the wegant Knglish embodied in it possibly it corresponds favorably withthat which is taught nowadays. If tottohingX ?u(Sh as thipervert the principles of human liberty, they wilValso degrademusic and grammar.One would bo very foolish to seek in our punlic schoolsany remnant of the teachings which make for tho continuationof those principles in the Constitution which guaranteethe people ar expression of their opinions. The teraoles ofcapitalism reach into over school-room in tho nation andthose things which do not make for the continuation ofcamtalisra nre prohibited there, whether they hv'n toaehiuof tho principles of free and popular government Of any thingelse. Caprtanpm is .seeking to create in tho publnl-tchool svstoon an unfailing army of future slaves. Such aftftg as theabove help to prepare the children's minds to potato thechains which aire being forged for them.This succesfull resistance to thisauthority put. the King in a hot temper. He now resorted to a cure to trickthe Americans into paying him o tax.The revenue Act was t, -paled, tho taxon tea only being retained. A bargainwhs made with the East Tndia Company allowing it rebates so that itcould send tea to America which couldbe sold for less than if it paid ritax. But this trick, which hecnninknown to . the Americans, seemed tothem an insult, nnd they bccnn.e mgredetermined than ever that the taxshould not be paid. In Boston, however, several loyalists, to whom thotea had boon consigned, were ready totako the tea and pay the tax whenit was landed. If that occurred theprinciple of "no taxation without representation" would be defeated. King(ieorge would get his tax. A committee of Boston citizens first triedevery legal means to prevent tholanding of the tea. But tho Governor,appointed by tho King in those daysrefused a pass to allow the tea shipsto roturn to England without unloading. For 20 days Boston and thowhole country armmd was on edgefor fear the tax wou'd bo paid. Onthe next day tho tea would surely belanded. A few of the revolutionaryleaders held a consultation and It wasdecided that nothing but direct actioncould now save the people of Massachusetts from this invasion of theirrights. A score or two of d.-terminedpatriots disguised themselves in Indian atire and secured tomahawks.They proceeded to tho wharf, backedby a mass of citizens, boarded thohip, broke open the 350 chests andwured the tea into the waters ofBoston Harbor. Some of the tea waslanded by the wind andwaves on thoIxiu-li at Dorchester: but King Georgenever got his tax on that tea.Not only had the principle "notaxation without representation"'been saved .But of far more coneouence was the cnthusiitMn whicht'i" Tea Parly aroused thruout all the1'iilr.iiies from New Hampshire to'lenrgia. Dp till tlun many had saH"Ah, what's the use bucking agninsifie government." Rut this act of thntPVOluHonarv leaders in thwarting thIvranicnl acts of their governmenlwi an insplrntinn to everv libertyloving American. Thev thrilled withpride for these heroes who had puttholr iirs in the balance to ssveAmerican idonls of freedom. A newdetermination to reMst government(Continued on pio 4.1Communist Manifesto, 10c each, 10 or more 6c each.Evolution and Revolution, 10c each, 10 or more 6c each.How the Farmer can get His, 10c each, 10 or more 6c each.Scientific Socialism Study Course, 10c each, 10 or more 6c each.Industrial Autocracy, 10c each, 10 or more 6c each.Marxism and Darwinism, 10c each, 10 or more 6c each.Slander of the Toilers Sc each, 10 or more 3c each.Socialism Utopian and Scientific, 15c each, 10 or more 11c each.Shop Talks on Economics, 10c each, 10 or more 6c each.Think or Surrender, 15c each, 10 or more 10c each.Violence or Solidarity, 5i each, 10 or more 3c each.Bullitt Mission to Ruscia, SOc each, 10 or more 40c each.Communist Manifesto (cloth), 60c each, 5 or more 40c each.Evolution Social and Organic, 60c each, 5 or more 40c each.Law of Boigenesis, 60c each, 5 or more 40c each.Jack London's Works, 60c each, 5 or more 45c each.Debs Authorized Life and Letters Karsner, $1.50, 5 or more $1.25.Russia in 1919, Ransome, $1.50, 5 or more, $1.25.Lenin, the Man and His Work, Williams, $1.50, 5 or more $1.25.Pelle the Conqueror, $4.00 (2 volume).Philosophical Essays, Dictzgen, $1.25, 5 or more $1.00 each.Savage Survivals, $1.25 each, 5 or more $1.00 each.Socialism lor Student, 60t each, 5 ot mar i8c h.Socialism and Modern Science, $1.25 each, 5 or more $1.00 each.Stories of the Cave People, $1.25 each, 5 or more $1.00 each.Socialism and War, $1.00 each.Ten Days That Shook The World, $2.00 each.The World's Revolutions, 60c each, 5 or more 45c each.Universal Kinship, Moore, $1.25 each, 5 or more $1.00 each.Value Price and Profit, Marx, 60c each, 5 or more 45c each.TWO REAL WORTH-WHILE OFFERSWhile the winter months are here, why not read to advantage?The above titles offer you a wide choice of scientific andinteresting literature. Send us $5.00 for an order of the abovetitles and we will give you a year's subscription to The Toilet.That's worth while isn't it?ANOTHER CHANCE.Send us $5.00 for subscription cards to The Toiler and receive free $1.50 worth of any of the above literature. You sellthe cards and get your money back. Toiler sub cards sell easily.PLACE TOUR ORDER TODAY ADDRESS:COMMUNIST LABOR PARTY OF OHIO.3207 Clark Ave. Cleveland, Ohio.ORGANIZATION WINS!Alwaa does organization win. You know it, we know it,the capitalist class knows that by organization, the workingclass can take chatrge of the world aud all its affairs. That'swhy we preach and practice organization because it is theshortest way, in fact, the only way to win.But without funds no organization is possible. To do ourwork effectively, and in the shortest time possible, we musthave funds with which to carry on organization work. And weare going to give you a ohance to help do this work. Thereare many ways in which you cannot help but here is one waym wnicn even the hardest hit worker can do a little.Use tho blank bolow. Build up the organisation by buildingup the Organization Fund.Name address amount....Name address amount....Name address amount....Name address amount....wame f address amount....Sent byAddressSend all Remittances toCOMMUNIST LABOR PARTY OF OHIO3207 Clark Ave., Cleveland, Ohio,I'I-v--' ' ' ; " ffH KibU . . Xt9ViilflHI